Joe,
The D700 is owned and controlled by ARISS--Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station. ARISS is an international working group of
volunteers with delegates from AMSAT-International and the National Amateur
Radio organizations. In the USA this is AMSAT-NA and the ARRL.
The ARISS team works with the 5 regonal space agencies (NASA, CSA, JAXA,
ESA, and Roscosmos/Energia) to develop and operate the amateur radio
equipment on board ISS. In 1996, NASA asked the amateur radio community to
develop a working group to provide a single amateur radio voice to the space
agencies...the result was ARISS.
The ISS crew use the ham radio equipment at their discretion on their free
time. Like you and me, they have many choices on how to spend their free
time, including reading books, watching movies, talking to their families
and using the ham radio. Some crew members only use ARISS on their free
time to talk to children at schools. Others are more into ham radio...they
support the school contacts and will talk to hams on the ground. There are
several future crew members in the fall time frame that have expressed
significant interest in using the ARISS equipment for general QSOs. We will
keep you informed as their flight nears.
Thank you very much for your interest in ARISS.
73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chairman
AMSAT-NA V.P for Human Spaceflight Programs
From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org on behalf of joe cassano aka jmario
Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 5:51 PM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re ISS D700 msg in AMSAT-BB Digest, Vol 3, Issue 71
I'm curious to learn what organization owns/controls the D700 that is on
the ISS and how, where, when, and by who decisions are made and
implemented regarding switching the D700's mode of operation.
I understand the D700 shutdowns for safety reasons, its use as a
educational tool to connect school children worldwide with NASA, its
availability as a recreational device for interested ISS residents, and
the fact that having astronauts watching over and tweaking the D700 is
near or at the bottom of the astronaut's task list. I have never
understood how the non-shutdown, non-school D700 time is allocated and
who does the allocation.
Joe Cassano
K3FMA
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> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:05:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: MM <ka1rrw at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] ISS may be off the air during the Shuttle Mission
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> Now that the D700 has been tested for 5+ days in Cross
> Band repater, its time to find a laptop and start
> running some Slow Scan TV from ISS again.
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